The Arbery Verdicts: Guilty!
The Arbery verdicts are not about Black Lives Matter.
They are not about evening the score.
They are not about revenge or reform.
They are about a jury analyzing and digesting the relevant facts within the context of the law as applied to the facts.
At the end of the day, the Arbery verdicts are about what equal justice under law is supposed to look, sound, and feel like…
12/01/2021 @ 1:40 pm
They would be about Black Lives Matter if they went the other way.
What a lot on the Right don’t get about Black Lives Matter is that all we want is for the system to work for everyone the way it’s supposed to.
This is the confusion of answering Black Lives Matter with All Lives Matter. The only reason BLM exists is that currently all lives Don’t matter. That’s the problem.
12/01/2021 @ 5:05 pm
Kosh, put “All Lives Matter” in the context of the following:
“ALL men are created equal…”;
“With liberty and justice for ALL…”;
“Happy Christmas to ALL, and to ALL a good night…” .
In the American political and social lexicon, the term ‘ALL’ is not the inclusive or universal modifier it is supposed and appears to be…
The term “ALL” has not been inclusive of people of color from day one.
The problem for many white people is that the use and placement of the word “all” creates a cognitive dissonance and internal conflict that is simply too great a load for them to bear.
The overwhelming ambivalence and uncertainty results in resentment, fear, hostility, anger, and hatred of and for those who white people know are not and cannot be included in ‘their’ psychological and emotional “ALL”.